The Blind Sheik, or Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, is sitting in prison for plotting to bomb the 1993 World Trade Center in New York City, among other crimes. Andrew C. McCarthy, the prosecutor who helped to bring Rahman and eleven others to justice, is speaking out on behalf of Michelle Bachmann and her brave colleagues, who are asking for an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood occupying high-level positions in the United States government and particularly about their security clearances.
President Morsi told an excited crowd a few weeks ago that he would assure the release of the Blind Sheik, despite the terrorist attempt on US soil, or the fact that his terror organization masterminded the assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, or the fact that Rahman had a "close association" with Osama bin Laden, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Obviously, the release of this terrorist is not an option, despite the calls by Egyptian officials.
McCarthy's article is highly critical of John McCain and the others who have pounced on Bachmann and her colleagues. Additionally, McCarthy goes deeper into the family connections of Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood, and gives a list (non-exhaustive) of other government connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
McCarthy points to an article in Spiegel in 2011, which is a fascinating read, if only to be disgusted by McCain's appalling hypocrisy. McCain's opinions "evolved" big time from that article, where he expresses his vehement concern about Obama's "tolerance" to the Muslim Brotherhood potentially taking over in Egypt. Now he seems to be cool if they are not even vetted properly be in the United States government.
One of the most reported aspects of this story is questioning of security clearances, particularly for one of Hillary Clinton's top advisors, Huma Abedin, the perfect poster child for the so-called Islamophobic witch hunt, as she is an attractive and credible victim. At issue is her immediate family, as her now-deceased father, mother and brother all have deep connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. As one article points out, Senator McCain should have stated that "Abedin has already been vetted and has a sound security clearance. But instead, the response was: "How dare you, Michele Bachmann!"
McCarthy points out that asking the question about security clearance "is not remotely unreasonable, nor is it an inquisition into Ms. Abedin's decency and rectitude." He points out that McCain said that the concerns about Huma's connection to the Muslim Brotherhood are "unspecified and unsubstantiated," which is not true, as these connections are well documented, and have been reported openly many times, as Bachmann points out in a letter to Keith Ellison, who has been particularly vocal about what he deems her inquiries to be reminiscent of McCarthyism.
The bizarre and telling thing about this story, is that the inquiries made should be simple to answer. Is security clearance standard across the board? And if not, why? Should it be? Have the rules changed? Why can't Bachmann and colleagues just get answers? Why make it a case about "Islamophobia", (clearly a silly tactic). Is it politics? Perhaps they protest too much for a reason.
Andrew C. McCarthy lists those conservatives who stand firm despite the opposition of so many, facing rabid and unreasonable accusations of operating a smear campaign and ironically, intolerance. They are Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Trent Franks (Ariz.), Tom Rooney (Fla.), and Lynn Westmorland (Ga).
History will surely smile on these American Heroes for taking the (unfortunately) unpopular position of ensuring the protection of Americans.
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Their ideology also tells them that Christian "law should govern all matters of state and family and that Christianity is the SUPERIOR religion on earth."
I would let my kids be driven to "scool" by a Muslim, Christian, Jew, Scientologist, or Pastafarian. Religious beliefs don't typically affect people's ability to drive and they certainly don't make them terrorists.
I'm not sure one of those scary Muslim extremists you describe would marry and bear children with a Jew as Huma Abedin has done.
It is really a shame that we can elect high level government people with access to top secret information without forcing them to be vetted BEFORE they can take office. Once they are in office, it is far too late to get the fox out of the henhouse.
Robert, if the Christians are radical, they should also not be allowed to operate in the government. Any individual, from any culture, with any faith, who has an agenda to harm people should not be allowed to have top security clearance.
They may be if they were not properly vetted, and that is all that Bachmann wants.
Why do I have the feeling we're talking less about Bachmann's latest conspiracy theory and more about stretches of logic recycled from the 2008 campaign?
Bachmann wants to remind everyone how scary Muslims are. Have you ever applied for a job with the US State Department? It's no easy feat, I can assure you.
You can make that determination yourself based on the simple fact that she is focusing exclusively on Muslims. We are just as vulnerable to infiltration by Christian extremists, with Bachmann herself the leader of a holy war.
She's received campaign funds from HSBC, which recently admitted to laundering money to terrorist groups. She advocates for all women to be submissive to their husbands. She has come right out and said "Not all cultures are equal." The gay conversion therapy championed by her and her husband has led to the suicides of countless gay teenagers.
A co-sponsor to her latest witch hunt, Louie Gohmert, recently said that the shooting in Aurora was the result of "ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs."
He was right. Of the 110 names that McCarthy gave to the Tydings Committee to be investigated, 62 of them were employed by the State Department at the time of the hearings. The committee cleared everyone on McCarthy's list, but within a year the State Department started proceedings against 49 of the 62. By the end of 1954, 81 of those on McCarthy's list had left the government either by dismissal or resignation.
The question is: Why were they not open about the fact that they were communists in the first place?
The people of the 1950s eventually realized that the word "communist" doesn't mean "Satanic baby-killer," just as we'll soon realize that "Muslim" doesn't mean "mass-murdering jihadist."
Renee, I'm glad you caught that word change he used in his attempt to be right.
I'm not a communist and therefore not the best person to give you a pitch (I think I wrote in "Jedi" on my last voter registration card). You claim to know more about it than I, so by all means, tell me how people were murdered by the so-called communists Joseph McCarthy dragged through the mud.
Uh-huh. And some people in the 50's thought history would surely smile on Joe McCarthy.
And the Taliban in Afghanistan? You mean the same Taliban who visited George Bush when he was governor of Texas, who we were happy to deal with when UNOCAL wanted to build a pipeline from Caspian oil fields to warm water port?
Ok, women and children stoned to death. I agree it's a sick culture that does this, but lots of cultures are strange with lots of odd punishments, like death for wearing eyeglasses; which was something that happened under Pol Pot, whom we didn't have a problem supporting, let alone tolerating.
Driving cars and similar issues are women's rights issues. Sure they should be allowed to drive cars, and nobody should be beaten daily by husbands (this is not common practice, and guess what this happens in America as well).
I can remember back about thirty some years ago - there was a corner store across the street from where I was living at the time. It was owned and run by a family from Pakistan. They were great people, and fair in their pricing and such - plus they made great cheesesteak subs and fries! I thought about them recently and wondered what happened to them, esp. after 9/11. I also thought about a cab driver I used to know, also from Pakistan, who came here to give his children a better life. He drove a taxi from morning to night to send each of his five children to college. Would he be allowed to do that today? Would those kids have a chance of getting in college now? Ordinary people - who lived and worked among us - suddenly became our "enemies" and "terrorists".
We'd all be better off if we gave some thought to the lives of people like you mentioned.
Graham, great point - and J, thanks for pointing that out.
WHERE is the lie. You excerpted my comment out of context. I was replying to Maree's statement about the 9/11 bombers. I was saying that holding Islam responsible for that = holding Christianity responsible for the largely Christian US preventing Iraq from repairing water purification equipment with the embargo that resulted in deaths of over 100,000 Iraqi children
EXACTLY where is the lie?
For many years, the liberal establishment has portrayed Senator Joseph McCarthy as "paranoid." They called his investigation of Communists in the US government and mass media "a witch hunt."
HOWEVER, Joe McCarthy has recently been proven correct by none other than liberal TIME magazine!! According to the June 7th 1999 issue of TIME, "…there was far more spying, and far more complicity by American (Communist) party members than was previously thought."
TIME based most of its conclusions on decrypted cable communications made between the biggest Soviet agent in the US and his Moscow superiors. These cables were released by the National Security Agency in 1995. However, the cables were so voluminous, that is has taken historians four years to begin publishing books based on them.
These cables, (called the "Venona" cables) clearly reveal that during the 1950's and 1960's, a vast communist conspiracy was indeed working to infiltrate the US government, the entertainment industry, and the US news media.
TIME says that the Venona cables prove that Soviet infiltration into American government and industry was "…deep, thorough and hostile." Finally, TIME admits, "…the fear of Russian espionage was neither neurotic nor hallucinatory." So Joe McCarthy was not paranoid after all!
Furthermore, (according to TIME) the most celebrated target of McCarthy's investigation, Alger Hiss, was in fact a communist agent while he was acting as US Assistant Secretary of State! Of course TIME failed to mention that he was also working as a communist agent when he helped to found the United Nations!
According to TIME, Alger Hiss was a member of the Communist party since 1934. He even went on a secret trip to the Moscow KGB office in 1944. (Note: Bill Clinton also made a secret trip to the Moscow KGB office when he was governor of Arkansas back in 1991. This fact was revealed in a series of articles by the newspapers in Little Rock Arkansas during the 1992 primaries. However, the Associated Press and the other liberal media outlets refused to cover this shocking story!)
The rest of the liberal media has ignored TIME's breakthrough article. It is up to us to spread the word. America has always had enemies. Right now it is the Communist Chinese. No matter which nation is seeking our downfall, we must be constantly vigilant against all, but dependent upon none.
See also "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America," John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, 1999.
Afterward McCarthy's counsel called it "a colossal mistake."
VENONA FILES
Let's hear your next stupid comment.
Of course, Hollywood of today would say differently because...
of the "45 Declared Communist Goals"...
#21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
Do you think the US wasn't infiltrating the Soviet government, or that MANY nations throughout the world and throughout history haven't been infiltrating the governments of their adversaries, all along?
And the prize comment is that Bill Clinton made a "secret trip" to a KGB office.
Priceless unintentional humor.
If your mother attends a communist event, does that make you a communist? That's the sort of link that McCarthy used.
What do you define as "a communist connection" ?
Uh, Robert, the US is OUR side, we're the "good guys" so our infiltrating our enemies is a GOOD thing. Don't you think?
Ignorance such as yours is what has brought us to the brink of our own country, the USA, becoming communist. Your ignorance (or complicity) put Obama, the communist, in the White House. You have no problem with the USA being a communist state?
Specifically (meaning SPECIFICALLY) how has Obama made the US more of a communist state than it already was before he arrived on the scene?
And, while you're at it, what nation in the entire industrialized world is less "communist" than we are?
If a city of 400,000 people has a couple murderers on the loose, it's "right" to capture them and throw them in jail (I'll leave capital punishment out of this to keep the confusion level low). It's not right to arrest 300,000 people and throw them in jail because their father once owned a gun or they had coffee with a knife owner.
Your "rightness" idea is way too simplistic.
Of course I wasn't saying that 300,000 people were arrested by McCarthy. It was an analogy based on your idea that if someone is "right" about some aspect of something it doesn't matter what they do about it. Here's an alternative analogy: Hitler was "right" in assuming that the Germans were suffering from hardships after WWI. Does that mean that invading Poland, rounding up and killing Jews, and trying to take over the world is ok, because he was "right" about the Germans needing to pull out of their situation?
You say it as if "What's the problem?" Do you have a sales pitch for why that's not a bad thing? Don't duck the question. I know it's hard to peddle backwards.
A lot of these people were blacklisted because they had a distant relative who was a communist, or even that they attended a communist event, maybe because they were curious; or even if they liked the communist ideal, In America we're guaranteed freedom of association, or freedom to think our own thoughts. Can you name anyone on McCarthy's list who committed a CRIME and wasn't prosecuted.
For all your flag waving, it sounds like you'd like America to be just as totalitarian as the Soviet Union was.
...you ducked the question with several questions. yeah, I noticed.
...hmmm, I didn't realize I said that. Can you show me where. Oh never mind, I'm not distracted.
...So, how about those radical Muslims in this administration?
...not go'n on your wild goose chase, I don't have McCarthy's list of names, I don't know if they were on it, you can show me where they were on the list and tell me why they shouldn't have been. How's that?
"Can you name anyone on McCarthy's list who committed a CRIME and wasn't prosecuted." ...like I said, I don't have the list. You're looking for "technicalities" to have the whole case thrown out. McCarthy was RIGHT.
...sounds like nothing of the sort. Don't try projecting your desires onto me.
""For all your flag waving..."
...your mocking my patriotism reminds me of something an evil man once said: "America is like a healthy body and it's resistance is threefold; it's patriotism, it's morality and it's spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within"
- Joseph Stalin
...do you have a problem with my love of my country and my Patriotism?
Ducked what questions? On the McCarthy thing, your question was about "guilt." Guilt is a legal term. Most of McCarthy's "work" wasn't about the legality. And by the way... I believe you ducked my question about what specifically Obama has done that makes us more "communist" than we were before.
While you didn't specifically say we were the least communist industrial country, your answer to my question about that was the "your mom told you, if your friends jump off a bridge." Any reasonable observer would take that to mean that the "you" your mom is referring to is the US, and the friends jumping off the bridge are the more communist countries, with the obvious implication that "you" (we) are the least communist country. Go ahead, take another shot at that: What other industrialized country is less "Communist" than we are?
Muslims shouldn't have to leave the administration or any public office due to their religion. If they've committed a crime or have direct link to crimes they should be out. Just like Christians.
The "bad things about America" was sarcasm. But it brings up the point that we're a lot alike. From some perspectives we both bad mouth America, meaning - we thing some things are wrong, and should be corrected. Although I disagree with a lot of your "mistaken" assumptions, I admire your initiative; misplaced and damaging as it is.
NOTE: REFRESH Robert's memory...
"And, while you're at it, what nation in the entire industrialized world is less "communist" than we are?" ...my mom used to say, "just because your friends jump off a bridge, does that mean you should jump off a bridge?"
You say it as if "What's the problem?" Do you have a sales pitch for why that's not a bad thing? Don't duck the question. I know it's hard to peddle backwards.
I agree with Samuel Johnson that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." The problem with patriotism is that it's blind, for the most part, and it's largely used as a device by governments to get support from citizens to give their lives to fight for things other than what the "fight" (or war) is purported to be about, or to engage in policy that is not necessarily in their interest.
Here's an illustrative interchange between Goering and American Intelligence Agent Gustave Gilbert from Goering's cell at the Nuremberg trials.
Goering: "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," Gilbert pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
Goering: "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
The goal of socialism is communism.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
AND, we are NOT a democratic country, we are a democratic republic. Because after all,...
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
Vladimir Lenin
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.
- Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Then it must follow that everyone commenting here, including you, is insane and irresponsible.
Better to ignore such trash.
More irony ;-) Want to make any arguments to prove this article is "trash", that are actually meaningful? Or will you be like the rest of the critics who are mimicking what the MSM tells them to believe?
Cute.
Everyone does. :]
Who told you about that, Punky?
True..."There are no Atheists in Foxholes!"
...with all due respect...
...you could have done your own post for this, but the distraction in the name of compassion was very clever, clever indeed. I see your intent.
My sister just had surgery Thursday, can we say a few prayers for her while we're at it?
Prayer for your Sister...Done!
Thanks for the prayer. They found NO cancer. She is recovering and full of cheer. (maybe the medication) ;)
Praise God! Great News! Tell her to do as She's told...
Thanks for the update!
If I didn't get back right away, I was at the Otakon convention in Baltimore this weekend.
Not sure where your numbers stem from, so ill throw in another..In short, 809 million people have died in religious wars. That’s nearly a billion people.
209 million have died in the name of Communism.
Some 62 million died during World War II, civilian and military, on all sides.
Conclusively, more people have died in the name of religion than in the name of Communism or Hitler, or the two combined times two.
Aaannnd...on the subject of "Pot"....wow...